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I loved both Ghost games, Tsushima and Yōtei both sold very well, and Sucker Punch is not a massive studio by AAA standards. Huge bummer.

ai is a can of gasoline poured on every smoldering contradiction of capital previously kept in check by human inconvenience

Remembering the 'cozy horror' discourse... Internet writer: I like the idea of a game with spooky vibes that isn't trying to traumatize me! Internet people: This is fascism. (hound writer off the internet)

Now is the time to care about everyone, not “once we win” The time to care about everyone is always always always now

🇺🇸🗳️ Make sure you’re registered to vote. Do it now & repost. iwillvote.com

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

To illustrate this with another beat, some of the reporting that the NYT has done on Alito and Roberts in particular has been groundbreaking. But the paper's day-to-day coverage of the Court does not capture how much of a role it has played in America becoming a competitive authoritarian nation.

Imagine how normalized violence has become when people will attack members of the press, with cameras rolling, seemingly without hesitation. Now imagine what Palestinians in the West Bank are experiencing every day. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

We get useless flying cars but also millions of people died because you defunded US Aid and also because of the government you support’s policies, normal Americans can’t afford gas

A wise person once told me: if you shenan once, you’ll shenanigan.

let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God

I'm sure it's been said but Shane Gillis is the ultimate DEI hire.

Looking at regret rates is revealing. Regret rates for breast reconstruction: <47% For body contouring: <33.3% For bariatric surgery: 19.5% For tattoos: 16.2% Breast augmentation: <9.1% For having kids: 7% For gender affirming surgery: 1% www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

Trying to imagine the mindset of someone who wakes up in the morning and thinks, 'you know what's a problem? Too many hot women in short shorts at the gym!'

i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience

this is one of the best episodes of book club and if you only occasionally listen, go listen

One thing that still surprises me about game development? How iteration is so wildly effective at turning garbage into gold. "This sucks" -> Fix things that suck -> "Doesn't suck?! Whoa!"

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

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I'll take the earnestness of a Wil Wheaton over the practiced, performative cynicism of a Tom Morello any day. Voting isn't everything, and I did not like Kamala Harris, but if your 'antifascism' compels you to let fascim win the White House, you are not against fascism, you are a brand.

new wolfenstein looks like shit

I think it is crucial for the health of the Democratic party that the entire consultant class from previous administrations, including and especially Clinton, be told to go home and stop bothering people. They are wrong about everything and have been holding the party back for decades.

abolish the death penalty

As the new CEO, it is imperative we improve the efficiency of our practices. With that in mind, I'm going to need you to spend 50% of your days making me presentations that demonstrate how you aren't wasting time.

Just remarkable that in this age of great existential challenges the biggest problem in government and the economy seems to be dumbass leadership intent on making things worse.

Mandating a 'bottom-up' leadership style from my perch, at the top.

glad to see him mackling even more

How it feels doing long division on my whiteboard

'Who is this moron? This charlatan? This waste of space who wrote such drivel?' - me reading my own writing from three months ago

A lotta creatives fall victim to Envy, but what you really wanna embrace is the Spite. Spite is a great motivator.

Alaska officials accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting but finally dropped those charges this month.

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind